Toughening two dimensional materials through lattice disorder

• Main Authors: Xie, Wenhui, Zhang, Xibei, Wei, Yujie, Gao, Huajian
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Monolayer Amorphous Carbon; Lattice Disorder
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171409
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Carbon-based two-dimensional (2D) materials, with graphene being the most prominent example, are some of the strongest materials existing today due to their covalent bonding but at the same time also the most fragile, with fracture toughness close to that of an ideally brittle solid, due to their in...